Association Quote by William J. Clinton

Ignorant of history, we find it easy to accept our isolation from one another. We are more able to recognize differences than shared experiences…

— Linda Simon

“Negative identity is a phenomenon whereby you define yourself by what you are not. This has enormous advantages, especially in terms of the hardening…

— Morris Berman

My films have often looked at the whole dilemma of identity as a straitjacket for people, for societies, for cultures, for historical moments.

— Todd Haynes

Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today: how can peoples of different appearance... and dissimilar ways…

— Clyde Kluckhohn

Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are.

— Sydney J. Harris

“People must come to the understanding that they do not have a fixed identity. They have the power to identify and alter features of…

— Lisa Firestone

The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore the irresistible…

— John Stuart Mill

I lean towards traditionally what people would consider the more negative side of life.

— Josh Silver

I believe so many people live what I call that false identity they are living according to other people's expectations, associations, their experiences, the…

— Paula White

There's no such thing as identity: it's something we have to believe in to make life more tolerable.

— Sebastian Faulks

A person can describe another person as positive or negative, but what we cant see is that we all have an opposite, if you…

— Anonymous

Identity is not inherent. It is shaped by circumstance and sensitivity and resistance to self-pity.

— Dorothy West